Let taxpayers claim gifts to charity 'off the top'

5:09 PM,
May 14, 2013

Donald Racheter

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Donald Racheter
| Guest Opinion

Americans have long been known as a very charitable people. We give more to others than any other national group.

As yet another income tax filing deadline has come, it is appropriate to revisit the issue raised in the Dec. 17, 2012, issue of the Wall Street Journal "Should We End the Tax Deduction for Charitable Donations?" Not represented in the pro-con "debate" between Daniel J. Mitchell and Diana Aviv were the positions of expanding the deduction and replacing it with a credit against gross income so as to encourage all those who currently give but do not itemize their deductions when filing ...